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5 Books for 5 Year Olds

My Goddaughter is now 5, and has started Kindergarten. We are able to read longer books now and she is even able to sound out some of the words herself. Looking back over the 5 Books for 4 Year Olds post I see some she still likes (The Duckling Gets a Cookie!?), and others that […]

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2014 Overview and Book of the Year

I feel that overall this was a pretty good year. I read a lot of books I liked, I read some I didn’t. I know my reading habits have been changing over the years, as I spend more time reading periodicals and articles and less time reading books. Thankfully I have the Pocket app which […]

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5 Books for 4 Year Olds

My goddaughter is now 4! And while we still enjoy many of the same titles from my 5 Books for 2 year olds post (esp. Biscuit) I thought I’d do an update on some of the books we’ve recently found enjoyable. 1. Step Into Reading Disney Princess Books – Titles we enjoy are Winter Wishes, […]

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The Circle Maker : Part 1

NOTE : I’m not going to spend much time describing the general idea of the text, for that you can go here to Amazon The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest FearsĀ or to their own site here. This book has gotten a lot of coverage and I highly recommend this review […]